Saw videos of the Reachy-Mini and I love the idea of chatting with a little snarky robot so I tried to setup my laptop as the snarky chat companion sans the expensive plastic bot. All attempts had 20-30 seconds latency using Open WebUI + llama.cpp + Gemma 4 E2B with Whisper STT + Kokoro TTS in "voice mode" Suggestions? I dont want the avatar, just the funny chat voice to keep me awake while I'm slogging away at midnight. Laptop Specs: Component Specification Model MSI GS70 2QD CPU Intel Core i7-5700HQ CPU speed 2.70 GHz base Cores / Threads 4 cores / 8 threads RAM 16 GB DDR3 GPU NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M GPU VRAM 2 GB Storage 1 Approximately 1 TB SATA SSD Operating system Windows 64-bit Is my laptop too old and slow to even run a tiny voice model without massive lag?????   submitted by   /u/mesolimbic-bliss [link]   [comments]